The Twentieth Century
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1900-1909 Model-T, First Flight, San Francisco Earthquake, Einstein's Theory of Relativity, Boxer Rebellion, First Silent Movie, Victoria dies, |
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1910-1919 Franz Ferdinand, World War I, Suffragettes, Easter Rising in Dublin, Titanic, Russian Revolution, Scott of the Antarctic, Mata Hari, Prohibition, Al Capone, Amritsar Massacre |
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1920-1929 King Tut's Tomb, Irish Free State, Mussolini, J. Edgar Hoover, Mein Kampf, Monkey Trial, Charles Lindbergh, Wall Street Crash |
| 1930-1939 Great Depression, Television, Mohandas Gandhi, Josef Stalin, Empire State Building, Amelia Earhart, Nazis, "Monopoly," the Hindenburg |
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1940-1949 World War II, Blitz, Adolf Hitler, Pearl Harbor, Manhattan Project, Chuck Yeager, Berlin Airlift, Apartheid, Communist China, Israel, National Health Service |
| 1950-1959 Hydrogen Bomb, McCarthyism, Elvis Presley, Korean War, DNA, Colour TV, Munich Air Crash, Polio Vaccine, Mt. Everest, Disneyland, Fidel Castro, Rosa Parks, Sputnik |
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| 1960-1969 JFK, Martin Luther King Jr., Yuri Gagarin, World Cup, Che Guevara, Eichmann Trial, Berlin Wall, Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam War Protests, Charles Manson, Hippies, The Beatles, Neil Armstrong, Northern Ireland 'Troubles' |
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1970-1979 Munich Olympic Games, Watergate, Abortion, Patty Hearst, Pol Pot, Star Wars, Disco, Margaret Thatcher, Oil Crisis, Punk Rock, |
| 1980-1989 Mikhail Gorbachev, Miners Strike, Falklands War, AIDS, Pac-Man, Hillsbrough Disaster, Personal Computers, Berlin Wall falls, Ethiopian Famine, Exxon Valdez, |
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1990-1999 Internet, Nelson Mandela, Operation Desert Storm, Waco, O.J. Simpson, Oklahoma City Bombing, Princess Diana, Y2K, Tony Blair, Yugoslavia, Spice Girls |





